ZEUS: An Advanced Tool-Kit for Engineering Distributed Multi-Agent Systems
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There is an emerging consensus on the need to develop methodologies and tool-kits for building distributed multi-agent systems. This paper presents ZEUS, an advanced development tool-kit for constructing collaborative agent applications. ZEUS is a culmination of a careful synthesis of established agent technologies with the addition of some new ones, to provide an integrated environment for the rapid software engineering of collaborative agent applications. ZEUS defines a multi-agent system design methodology, supports the methodology with an environment for capturing user specification of agents, and automatically generates the executable source code of the user-defined agents. We also report on preliminary informal evaluation of ZEUS on three domains.
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